Neena Varakil

Neena Varakil
Neena Varakil (l.) In Bhubaneswar 2017
nation	India
birthday	2nd May 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Perambra , Kerala , India
size	167 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	6.66 m
Trainer	Bedros Bedrosian
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games silver Jakarta 2018 6.51 m Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games bronze Ashgabat 2017 6.04 m Asian Championships silver Bhubaneswar 2017 6.54 m Indoor Asian Championships bronze Tehran 2018 6.06 m
last change: August 27, 2018

Neena Varakil (born May 2, 1991 in Perambra , Kerala ) is an Indian long jumper .

Athletic career

Neena Varakil gained her first experience in international competitions at the Asian Championships 2013 in Pune , where she finished tenth with 5.75 m. In 2014 she won the silver medal behind the Portuguese Evelise Veiga at the Jogos da Lusofonia in Goa with 5.66 m . In 2017 she again took part in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar and won the silver medal there with 6.54 m behind the equally wide Vietnamese Bùi Thị Thu Thảo . At the beginning of September she won the bronze medal at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat . In 2018 she took part in the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran , where she won the bronze medal in the long jump with a new indoor record of 6.06 minutes. At the beginning of April, she took part in the Commonwealth Games in the Australian Gold Coast for the first time and finished tenth there with 6.19 m in the final. At the end of August she won the silver medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta with 6.51 m, again behind the Vietnamese Thảo.

In 2014, 2016 and 2017 Varakil became Indian champion in the long jump.

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.66 m (+0.7 m / s), July 11, 2016 in Bangalore
  • Long jump (hall): 6.06 m, February 3, 2018 in Tehran
• Triple jump: 13.04 m, June 7, 2014 in Lucknow

Web links

Commons : Neena Varakil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Neena Varakil in the database of World Athletics (English)